Maria Sklodowska, more commonly known as Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867 to a well developed family. Her parents were both teacher educators, and she was the youngest of five children. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in not only one but two fields (physics and chemistry). As a child, Curie had a bright and curious mind and excelled at school. Unfortunately, regardless of the excellece Curie could not attend the men-only University of Warsaw. Despite this, in an attempt to further her education she attended a set of underground, informal classes held in secret. To gather sufficient money to attend university, Curie for five years, worked as a tutor and a governess. In 1891, Curie finally made her way to Paris where she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was dedicated to excel in every aspect of her studies. She completed her master's degree in physics in 1893 and earned another degree in mathematics. After having receive an assignment to do a study on different types of steel and their magnetic properties, Curie found herself working alongside Pierre Curie to who she was happily married to.

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields Curie's efforts, with her husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the development of X-rays. She died on July 4, 1934.
Quotes
"I believe that Science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician; he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales."
– Marie Curie
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Early Life
Discoveries
Marie and Pierre Curie were dedicated scientists and completely devoted to one another. At first, they worked on separate projects. She was fascinated with the work of Henri Becquerel, a French physicist who discovered that uranium casts off rays, weaker rays than the X-rays found by Wilhelm Roentgen.
Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays. She discovered that the rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium. The rays, she theorized, came from the element's atomic structure. This revolutionary idea created the field of atomic physics and Curie herself coined the word radioactivity to describe the phenomena. Marie and Pierre had a daughter, Irene, in 1897, but their work didn't slow down.

Dr. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e. Radium & Polonium.
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist who lived between 1867-1934. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered two new elements (radium and polonium, two radioactive elements that they extracted chemically from pitchblende ore) and studied the x-rays they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were able to kill tumors. By the end of World War I, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world. She had made a conscious decision, however, not to patent methods of processing radium or its medical applications.
Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Poland and died on July 4, 1934. Her co-discovery with her husband Pierre Curie of the radioactive elements radium and polonium represents one of the best known stories in modern science for which they were recognized in 1901 with the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911, Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel prize, this time in chemistry, to honor her for successfully isolating pure radium and determining radium's atomic weight.
As a child, Marie Curie amazed people with her great memory. She learned to read when she was only four years old. Her father was a professor of science and the instruments that he kept in a glass case fascinated Marie. She dreamed of becoming a scientist, but that would not be easy. Her family became very poor, and at the age of 18, Marie became a